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Fear in the Night · Beat 195 · permalink

Private office

35:56–36:14 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:5835:58Frame at 36:0236:02Frame at 36:0836:08Frame at 36:1336:13

Play from 35:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 558–561. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Bob Klune (named at t:35:57): man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a dark jacket, seated at a table visible, audible
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a dark suit, standing in a doorway or sitting alone visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen standing in a doorway, looking distressed. [frame:1]
  • Two men are seated at a table, one speaking while the other listens. [frame:2]
  • The man in the dark jacket gestures while speaking to the other man. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit is alone again, looking down with his hand near his face. [frame:4]
Also said
“Dying, unconscious, both legs broken, skull fractured, insides all busted up.” 36:07 · “uh...” 36:11
Seen
doorway [frame:1], table [frame:2], curtains [frame:2], shelf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: crime, investigation, distress; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static camera

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, discussing a violent incident involving a woman named Mrs. Belknap and a man named Bob Klune. One man appears distressed and is seen alone in a doorway, while the other, in a dark jacket, speaks to him across a table.

“There's a young duck she used to run around with. His name was Bob Klune. Why is he?” 35:57 · “Milkman found Mrs. Belknap about daybreak Monday near a road that leads over here. Did it?” 36:01 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Fear in the Night (1947) at 35:58 (passage 35:56–36:14); US record: No renewal found

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